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...look up DuBois' great book The Souls of Black Folk and admire again its rolling thunder: "After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world--a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world ... One ever feels his twoness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings ." Will DuBois' famous refrain--"the problem of the Twentieth Century...
Four years ago, James Acton was barred from playing on his seventh-grade football team in Vernonia, Ore. after he refused to take a drug test. Acton's parents sued, arguing that their son, who was not a known drug user, had been subjected to unreasonable search. Today, in a 6-3 decision with broad implications for all American students, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools can require athletes to undergo random drug testing, without establishing any suspicion that the students involved are abusing substances. The Court held that school athletes have a lesser expectation of privacy, so that...
Pyka was correct--Harvard finished last in the tournament, losing to Maryland in its final game. Maryland, which was the host team, seemed vulnerable to the Crimson, and the Harvard players said going in that their realistic goal was beating Maryland to take seventh place...
...this time the New Yorkers would prevail, tallying twice in the final minute to win, 12-10. As a result, Harvard faced Villanova to fight for the seventh seed, a battle that the Crimson...
...were hoping to finish in the top for," first-year Harvard coach Don Benson '88 said. "But finishing seventh is a big step forward from last year...